Feed-bag support.



E. S. ELLIOT. FEED BAGSUPPORT.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 1 Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

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UNITED sTATns ELOISE S. ELLIOT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FEED-BAG SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

Application filed June 1, 1908. Serial No. 435,976.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it 1irnown that l, ELorsE S. ELLIOT, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in thecounty and State of New York, have invented a new and lmproved Feed- BagSupport, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in means for supportingfeed bags adliacent the mouths of horses and other animals, and theobject of the invention is to provide means whereby the feed bag will benormally held in a given position in regard to the animals head, butwhereby the animal may by lowering its head, draw the bag unward, sothat it may reach the feed in t 1e bottom of the bag.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures, and in whichp Figure 1 is aperspective view of a device constructed in accordance with my inventionand employed for supporting a horses feed bag; Fig. 2 is a rear view ofa portion thereof, one of the pulleys and its support being shown insection, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the pulley support.

My improved supporting mechanism may be used for holding any desiredform of feedbag and does not necessitate any changes in the bag otherthan the provision of bearings upon opposite sides thereof adjacent theupper edge, said bearings comprising pulleys, rollers, rings or otherdevices permitting free movement of a cord therethrough.

My improved mechanism is made up primarily of two separate members, oneadapted to extend over the horses head and having at its ends bearingsin the form of pulleys or other devices permitting free movement of acord, and the other comprising a cord, rope, oi the like, adapted toconnect the first-mentioned member, the feed bag and a portion of theharness, or other substantially fixed point adjacent to, on or about theanimal.

In the specific form shown, the first-mentioned member is formed of astrap 10, extending over the back of the horses head, and at each end ofthe strap is a pulley support 11, preferably formed of a single piece ofsheet metal. The metal is cut to form two oppositely-disposedsubstantially parallel face plates 12, 12, connected together at oneside by a spacing piece 13, and connected together at the opposite sideby a somewhat shorter spacing piece 14. Each side plate at its upper endis bent inwardly to form a horizontally-disposed portion 15, and each ofthese portions terminates in an upwardlyextending flange 16. The twoflanges are substantially parallel and are spaced apart a distancesubstantially equal to thethickness of the strap 10. The strap extendsbetween the two flanges and is secured in place in any suitable manner,as, for instance, by a plurality of rivets 17.

Above the connecting piece 14, each of the side plates is provided witha vertically-disposed outwardly-bcnt flange 18, and at the lower end,one of the side plates is provided with an extension' 19, serving asmeans for the attachment of a rope to the side plate. Intermediate thetwo side plates there is mounted a pulley 20, the pivot 21 of which issecured to the opposite side plates. The support for the pulley at oneend of the strap 10, is formed exactly the reverse of the support forthe pulley at the opposite end of the strap. In other words, one isdesigned for use on the right-hand side of the horses head and the otherupon the left-hand side. The hook 19 comes upon the outer side late,that is, the one away from the horses ead, and the flanges 18 whichguide the rope to the pulley, come upon the rear side of the device.

The feed bag 22 is provided upon each side thereof with a pulley 23,preferably held between sheet metal plates 24 riveted to the bag, andconnecting the two pulleys and a portion of the harness is a rope orcord 25. One end of the ro e is attached in any suitable manner to t ehook 19 and extends thence to the front side of the pulley 23 andbeneath said pulley. The rope then extends upwardly and crosses theportion extending from the hook 19 to the lower pulley, and passes overthe upper pulley 2O from the front side thereof. The rope then extendsrearwardly to engagement with any suitable portion of the harness alongthe back, as for instance, the hook 26. The rope is arranged the same onboth sides of the head, and preferably only a single piece of rope isemployed, the center of the rope coming at the hook 26.

ln the rope, at the rear side of the lower pulley 23, l Aprovide a knot,ball or other Cil suitable projection l27, for preventing the rope frompassing over the pulley but in one direction, and at the rear side ofthe pulley 20, I provide a second knot, ball or projection 28, for thesame purpose. The supporting of the bag in the position indicated in thedrawings, is not dependent upon the engagement of the rope Vwith thehook 2,6, for as the knots or projections 28 cannot pass the upperpulleys, the bag cannot drop even though the horse brings its headrearwardly or extends it upwardly into .the air. The knots are so placedthat they hold the bag with the horses mouth adjacent the feed when the.desired quantity of feed. is placed in the bag. The horse by loweringits head toward the ground, increases .the .distance between the upperpulleys I2O and the hook 26 and this draws on the cord to raise the bagtoward the horses mouth. The knots or projections 27 and 28 may passaway from the pulleys and ermit the bag to be raised, but engage wit thepulleys to prevent the bag from being lowered to such an extent as toenable the horse to remove his nose from the bag.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

l. In combination, a feed bag, two .upper pulleys adapted to be`disposed adjacent lopposite sides of an animals head, supports for eachof said pulleys, each of said supports being formed of a single piece ofsheet metal having a hook or projection, means adapted ,j

opposite sides, and cords, each'having one 4o end thereof secured to thecorresponding hook or projection and extending down-V wardly around thecorresponding pulley of the rbag, thence over the corresponding upperpulley, andl thence rearwardly into en- Y gagement with a fixed point.

2. In combination, a feed bag, va strap adapted to extend across thebac-k of an animals head, a pulley adjacent each end of the strap, sheetmetal supports for .each ,of said pulleys, .each of said supports beingformed of a single piece of sheet metal including oppositely-di'sposedface plates, upwardly-extending ilanges for attachment to the strap, anda hook or projection, pulleys upon opposite sides of .the bag adjacentthe upper edge thereof, and cords, each having one end thereof securedto the corresponding hook or projection and extending downwardly aroundthe corresponding pulley on the bag, thence over .thecorrespondingpulley at the end of the strap, and thence rearwardly intoengagement with a fixed point adjacent the animals back.

In 4testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inthe'pre'sence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELOISE S. ELLIOT. l/Yitnesses:

OSCAR B. BnRGsTnM, WILLIAM R. ELLIOT.

